Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.
In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like propert...
Private Ryan: [after being told he can go home] [to himself] Private Ryan: It doesn't make any sense. [normal voice] Private Ryan: It doesn't make any sense, sir. Why? Why do I deserve to go? Why not any of these guys? They all fought just as hard as...
Private Cowboy: Tough break for Hand Job. He was all set to get shipped out on a medical. Private Joker: What was the matter with him? Private Cowboy: He was jerkin' off ten times a day. Private Eightball: No shit. At least ten times a day. Private C...
[talking about Capt. Miller] Corporal Upham: Reiben, so you even know where he went to school? Private Reiben: Cap'n didn't go to school, they assembled him at OSC outta spare body parts of dead GIs. Private Caparzo: You gotta pay attention to detail...
I'm a very private person. I like staying home and doing my stuff. I hate people invading on my privacy. I hate talking about my private life.
I wish over the years I had kept my private life private and my professional life a little more professional.
I don't feel comfortable talking about my private life, and some people in my private life don't feel comfortable about me talking about it. So I don't.
I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality.
About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.
Captain Miller: [weakly mutters something] Private Ryan: [leans in closer] What, sir? Captain Miller: James, earn this... earn it.
[lining up a rifle shot] Private Jackson: Be not Thou far from me, O Lord.
Captain Miller: They're tankbusters sir. P-51s. Private Ryan: Angels on our shoulders.
Private Reiben: You wouldn't shoot the kraut and now you're gonna shoot me? Sergeant Horvath: He's better than you.
Private: [screaming in agony] THEY'RE KILLING US! AND WE DON'T HAVE A FUCKIN' CHANCE AND THAT'S NOT FAIR!
Private: [when setting the German soldiers on fire] Don't shoot! LET THEM BURN!
Private: [shouting and under intense fire] What's the rallying point? Captain Miller: Anywhere but here!
Captain Miller: Whose goin' left? Private Jackson: I'll do it. I'll go left.
Da Nang Hooker: Hey, baby. You got girlfriend Vietnam? Private Joker: Not just this minute. Da Nang Hooker: Well, baby, me so horny. Me so HORNY. Me love you long time. You party? Private Joker: Yeah, we might party. How much? Da Nang Hooker: Fifteen...
Captain Miller: James Francis Ryan of Iowa? Private Ryan: Yes, sir. Paton, Iowa, that's correct. What is this about? Captain Miller: Your brothers were killed in combat. Private Ryan: Which - Which ones? Captain Miller: All of them. [Ryan pauses in s...
